'Anti-terrorist operation' in Ukraine was led by Yanukovych – SBU chief

13:16, 03.04.2014 1 min read

SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said that an anti-terrorist operation announced by the former leadership of the country in February 2014 was in fact the organization of mass killings of people during protests in central Kyiv, and that SBU places all the blame for what was happening onto then President Viktor Yanukovych.

"The planned anti-terrorist operation, and in fact the organization of mass killings of people, was directly led by former President Yanukovych," he said on Thursday at a press conference on the preliminary results of investigations into the mass killings in the center of Kyiv on February 18-20.